BITCOIN was created by US intelligence services to send untraceable funding to top-secret international CIA and MI5 missions, according to a shock new claim.

Bitcoin was made by US intelligence services to fund international spying operations, it is claimed

The shocking claim from a cybersecurity expert was made public after slides from her presentation in Russia were photographed and shared on social media.

One of Natalya Kaspersky’s slides said: "Bitcoin is a project of American intelligence agencies, which was designed to provide quick funding for US, British and Canadian intelligence activities in different countries.

“The technology is 'privatised,' just like the Internet, GPS and TOR. In fact, it is dollar 2.0. Its rate is controlled by the owners of exchanges.”

“People felt like this was the end of bitcoin. That was the sentiment even for a lot of hardcore believers.”

“I would say today when I talk to a lot of people out in the marketplace, everyone recognises that bitcoin is not going away.

“So there’s a legion of people out there, an increasingly growing segment of people, that see this as a great buying opportunity and I definitely think that’s the case with bitcoin.”

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The theory was revealed after slides from a talk in Russia were leaked

Bogart said that though Ripple in competition for bitcoin, it is other coins like Zcash and Monero that are the real risk to bitcoin.

He said: “I think the Zcash’s and the Monero’s of the world have a real place in this.

“We’re getting a little bit deep in the tech here but privacy is the other side of the coin to fungibility so when I use my $20 bill at the local grocery store, they don’t differentiate one $20 bill from another $20 bill right?

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It was also claimed that smartphones are used to spy on their owners

“That’s an important feature of Monero and Zcash and these privacy coins is that they’re all treated equally.

“Potentially with bitcoin, each of them has their own unique set of history and its own unique set of owners that could be an asset or it could be a liability longer-term.”